In our lives whenever we strive in faithfulness and obedience to God to be good, the devil is there to deceive and destroy.
The faithfulness of Elijah’s prayer in asking Almighty God to overcome the evil crisis facing Elijah is awesome, as will be seen. Jesus’ brother James records:
James 5.16-17
“…The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly…”
Indeed, Jeremiah emphasised the importance of prayer:
Jeremiah 29.11-13
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord , “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”
In Holy Faith the Holy Spirit guides us as the Apostle Paul teaches:
Romans 8.26
“In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.
Thus, I pray that all Covenant Nations – all True Israel is thankful for the dedication of the Editorial Team for their Godly wisdom and truth in reporting this current totally evil crisis. These previous Editorials mentioned below are still totally relevant as the crisis is becoming worse as revealed and confirmed by the ungodliness to Almighty God of COP26.
Previous Editorials have defined our crisis. The Editorial Team’s thoughts ‘In This Day and This Hour’ [1] are timely and awesome: “It is beyond question that the integrity of the United Kingdom and the great company of Covenant Nations in all their aspects have been undermined during the past seven decades… We are a people in crisis, desperately looking for positive guidance and leadership that will remove us from the deepening quagmire of destruction in a spiritual vacuum.” Further, the article: [2]“The Force in our Midst Defying Almighty God while Christian prelates deny the Power of His Covenant Word” is precisely what I wish to address: [3] “Millions of Christians thinking and commonsense patriotic people today are being hounded out of their peaceable living by a ‘woke’ culture that is undermining the very foundations of society in the covenant nations. This may seem to be a very sweeping statement; it is nevertheless true and is a fact that must be faced by discerning minds as a matter of priority importance.” The Editorial is true – “the ‘woke’ culture is undermining the foundations of society in the Covenant Nations.”
I remember Churchill’s comments in May 1940 when he defined the crisis then as facing one of the greatest battles in history. He took up his task with buoyancy and hope as he faced the crisis. He asked for Almighty God’s help, with King George VI’s request for prayers of the Empire, to overcome a monstrous tyranny. There is a monstrous tyranny today as the above references have revealed.
Please bear with the following long passage of Scripture which clearly teaches of Almighty God’s faithfulness. It is so important, so critical, to read, believe and rely on Holy Scripture through the power and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Almighty God was totally faithful to Israel. Remember Elijah and his perseverance in his crisis:
1 Kings 18.1, 15, 17-24 & 26-40
“After a long time, in the third year, the word of the Lord came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab…” Elijah said, “As the Lord Almighty lives, whom I serve, I will surely present myself to Ahab today.” When he saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, the troubler of Israel?” “I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you and your father’s family have. You have abandoned the Lord ‘s commands and have followed the Baals. Now summon the people from all over Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel. And bring the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.” So Ahab sent word throughout all Israel and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel. Elijah went before the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.” But the people said nothing. Then Elijah said to them, “I am the only one of the Lord ‘s prophets left, but Baal has four hundred and fifty prophets. Get two bulls for us. Let them choose one for themselves, and let them cut it into pieces and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. I will prepare the other bull and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the Lord. The god who answers by fire-he is God.” Then all the people said, “What you say is good.” “So they took the bull given them and prepared it. Then they called on the name of Baal from morning till noon. “O Baal, answer us!” they shouted. But there was no response; no one answered. And they danced around the altar they had made. At noon Elijah began to taunt them. “Shout louder!” he said. “Surely he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or busy, or traveling. Maybe he is sleeping and must be awakened.” So they shouted louder and slashed themselves with swords and spears, as was their custom, until their blood flowed. Midday passed, and they continued their frantic prophesying until the time for the evening sacrifice. But there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention. Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come here to me.” They came to him, and he repaired the altar of the Lord, which was in ruins. Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Your name shall be Israel.” With the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord, and he dug a trench around it large enough to hold two seahs of seed. He arranged the wood, cut the bull into pieces and laid it on the wood. Then he said to them, “Fill four large jars with water and pour it on the offering and on the wood.” “Do it again,” he said, and they did it again. “Do it a third time,” he ordered, and they did it the third time. The water ran down around the altar and even filled the trench. At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: “O Lord , God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. Answer me, O Lord , answer me, so these people will know that you, O Lord , are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again.” Then the fire of the Lord fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench. When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, “The Lord – he is God! The Lord -he is God!” Then Elijah commanded them, “Seize the prophets of Baal. Don’t let anyone get away!…”
The above is a long passage of Scripture and totally relevant. We need to read Scripture and pray at all times. As I remembered Churchill above I remember King George VI requesting Seven Days of Pray by Britain and the Empire. Almighty God was faithful and gave victory. The same was true when Christian, General George Paton’s Chaplain, James O’Neil wrote a prayer for General Paton – the Lord gave victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
Just as Jezebel had killed the Lord’s prophets and wanted to kill Elijah, a similar evil faced Thomas Cranmer.
With the assistance of Martin Luther and several Continental reformers, Cranmer changed doctrine or discipline in areas such as the Eucharist, clerical celibacy, the role of images in places of worship, and the veneration of saints. Cranmer promulgated the new doctrines through the Prayer Book, the Homilies and other publications.
After the accession of the Catholic Mary I, Cranmer was put on trial for treason and heresy, he was imprisoned for over two years.
Mary wanted him executed, and, on the day of his execution, he withdrew his recantations, to die a heretic to Catholics and a martyr for the principles of the English Reformation. Cranmer’s legacy lives on within the Church of England through the Book of Common Prayer and the Thirty-Nine Articles, an Anglican statement of faith derived from his work. Spiritual revival began with Cranmer and has been encouraged by the faithful Church in faithful Covenant Nation Britain (Ephraim) that has been ministering for centuries, taking the saving Gospel of Jesus to the Empire.
Cranmer was dreadfully treated by Mary I in a similar way that Elijah was treated – and today many evangelical Ministers are ignored. Actually, Almighty God is ignored!
The truth above is a type/shadow of the evil today. Is all Covenant Nations as true Israel listening? Remember Jesus’ brother James recorded:
James 1.22, 2.17-18
“Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.””
Further, the deception of the ‘Green movement’ and the spiritual failure of the liberal church is appalling.
The attempts to push to a godless global ‘last days’ one-world government shows the rejection of Almighty God and His sustaining and maintaining His creation. This is clearly seen in the greed forcing the fraud of climate change on Covenant Nations. Australia is blessed with the best coal (anthracite) in God’s world. Technology has enabled coal-fired stations to produce the cheapest, cleanest base-load power. Professor Ian Plimer, Australia’s leading geologist in his book ‘Climate Change Delusions and the Great Electricity Rip-off’ makes the following comments [4] on the deception of human induced climate change:-
“Very cold minimum temperatures measured in 2017 by government agencies are expunged from the record or changed to a warmer temperature to show a warming trend.”
There is no relationship between measured temperature and CO2 emissions. Plimer continues:
“The fraudulent ‘homogenisation’ of raw data, the inaccessibility of stored raw data, the deletion of large volumes of raw data, the opacity of modeling methods, the omission of validation past climate data, the uncertainty of measurement, claims of a consensus and the demonising of dissent all show that climate ‘science’ has nothing to do with science but, rather, is post-modernist political activist thuggery. These historical temperature records may be nigh on useless.
Taxpayers fund climate research and institutions like the Bureau of Meteorology, CSIRO and universities. We expect accountability and independent dispassionate information and should not have to pay crippling electricity bills because of fraudulent environmental activism.
Attempts to change global temperature or stop global climate change are deluded and are essentially attempts to control to every aspect of our lives by unelected opaque organisations such as the UN.
Climate change activism is the main weapon of the culture wars to deconstruct Western civilization.”
It is interesting that China, Russia and India are not overly enthusiastic with the ‘woke’ COP26 Summit.
The ‘woke culture’ mentioned above is a type/shadow of the evil mentioned at the time of Elijah which was destroying “the foundation of society” then and likewise now.
I am repeating for emphasis my previous Covenant Nations article. History repeats itself. The previous Editorial on: “…national unfaithfulness”. The decision by Mary I in 1554: [5]“Significantly it was in November-December 1554 that Henry VIII’s Act of Supremacy was repealed, restoring the supremacy of the Pope over the Church of England, which was celebrated by the Feast of Reconciliation as a new holy day.”
Remember history; In October 1517, Martin Luther nailed 95 Theses of reforms to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. By the power of the Holy Spirit Cranmer’s heart was changed.
Cranmer, through the Holy Spirit’s inspiration, effectual calling and grace, knew and believed Jesus’ words:
John 15.16
“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last…”
Almighty God has blessed our Covenant Nations – will we repent and turn to Him as faithful True Israel. Remember Elijah prayed “O Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel…” We as Covenant Nations are True Israel and heirs of Almighty God’s promise:
Galatians 3.26-29
“You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”
I pray that Covenant Nations will persevere in Holy faith in this evil time, this crisis:
Jude 17-21
“But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.” These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit. Keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.”
[1] The Covenant Nations Vol 5 No 6, 2021 p10-11
[2] Ibid p6
[3] Ibid
[4] Australia’s Sovereignty & Unfaithful Governance, Rev Dr Graham Whelan p12-13
[5] Ibid